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Scootle – Home Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, and can give instructions and/or comments for each item. It provides a URL for students or other staff to access your bank of resources webpage.

The Drama Teacher The Drama Teacher is a blog created and maintained by Melbourne drama taechers Justin Cash. It has a lot of links, ideas and tips for Drama and Theatre teachers at all levels of education.

Introduction to Creative Thinking Much of the thinking done in formal education emphasizes the skills of analysis–teaching students how to understand claims, follow or create a logical argument, figure out the answer, eliminate the incorrect paths and focus on the correct one. However, there is another kind of thinking, one that focuses on exploring ideas, generating possibilities, looking for many right answers rather than just one. Both of these kinds of thinking are vital to a successful working life, yet the latter one tends to be ignored until after college.

CeLT / LRT Learning Technologies Review Fabulous review of edtech (ncluding LMS) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Proposals were developed by the Learning Technologies Review project group, steered by the DVC Student Experience. The group presented its findings through a set of scenarios, which set threshold aspirations for staff and students. The scenarios were endorsed by MMU’s ICT Strategy Group and used to review learning technology options.